Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.Steven Pinker
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.Steven Pinker
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.Steven Pinker
If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.Steven Pinker
Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.Steven Pinker
The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.Steven Pinker
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.Henry David Thoreau
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
